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GHSA-6p62-6cg9-f5f5 Memory exhaustion in HashiCorp Vault

HIGH Published 2023-12-09 Modified 2025-02-13 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2023-6337
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/hashicorp/vault
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-770
Reviewed
2023-12-12

Affected packages

• Go github.com/hashicorp/vault: >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.4 → fixed in 1.15.4 • Go github.com/hashicorp/vault: >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.8 → fixed in 1.14.8 • Go github.com/hashicorp/vault: >= 1.12.0, < 1.13.12 → fixed in 1.13.12

Description

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.12.0 and newer are vulnerable to a denial of service through memory exhaustion of the host when handling large unauthenticated and authenticated HTTP requests from a client. Vault will attempt to map the request to memory, resulting in the exhaustion of available memory on the host, which may cause Vault to crash. Fixed in Vault 1.15.4, 1.14.8, 1.13.12.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2023-6337 HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.12.0 and newer are vulnerable to a denial of service through memory exhaustion of the host when… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References